"Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Update 5.2.15
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Bilious
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Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Absolutely beautiful! I came across a realistic Ninja Turtle the other day when Google Hopping, it was awesome to see this thread pop up! So can't wait to see how this turns out, it's going to be fabulous!
How are you going to approach the shell? Foam fabricated? Etc? I hope for comfort's sake you work light!
Absolutely beautiful! I came across a realistic Ninja Turtle the other day when Google Hopping, it was awesome to see this thread pop up! So can't wait to see how this turns out, it's going to be fabulous!
How are you going to approach the shell? Foam fabricated? Etc? I hope for comfort's sake you work light!
Westies14
Master Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Hi Bilious,
The shell is being carved from a large block of upholstery foam rubber. The front, back, and sides are separate pieces. I'll glue them together, and also mount them to a metal "belt" ring. A wire form to shape the front shell plate and suspender straps will be riveted to the belt. Once the foam pieces are all together, I'll skin the shell with latex. An outer leather belt will help to hold the foam shell pieces in against the inner metal ring, and a diagonal shoulder strap (along with that front wireform) will help to keep the sandwich together up top.
Thanks for your continued interest - I'll certainly do some more work this weekend and I'll try to document it.
- Douglas
Hi Bilious,
The shell is being carved from a large block of upholstery foam rubber. The front, back, and sides are separate pieces. I'll glue them together, and also mount them to a metal "belt" ring. A wire form to shape the front shell plate and suspender straps will be riveted to the belt. Once the foam pieces are all together, I'll skin the shell with latex. An outer leather belt will help to hold the foam shell pieces in against the inner metal ring, and a diagonal shoulder strap (along with that front wireform) will help to keep the sandwich together up top.
Thanks for your continued interest - I'll certainly do some more work this weekend and I'll try to document it.
- Douglas
batfan10
Sr Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
looking great! I totally relate to the amount of fun making the faces are! I'm working on a Ninja Turtles (1990) mikey and I could not resist texturing!! Really brings these things to life!
looking great! I totally relate to the amount of fun making the faces are! I'm working on a Ninja Turtles (1990) mikey and I could not resist texturing!! Really brings these things to life!
batfan10
Sr Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Thank you very much! Can't wait to see yours finsihed! :thumbsup
Thank you very much! Can't wait to see yours finsihed! :thumbsup
BoozeBeGood
Sr Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Wow, the progress on this is superb!!!!
Wow, the progress on this is superb!!!!
EyeintheSky
Well-Known Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Wonderful sculpt! I look forward to seeing it finished!!!
Wonderful sculpt! I look forward to seeing it finished!!!
Olsen Designer
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Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
dude this looks awesome, I hope you do a fully costume version!!
dude this looks awesome, I hope you do a fully costume version!!
jaybible
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Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
I can see this being the best TMNT costume ever
... I'd love just the head as a sculpture in my house, althought it would probably freak out the gf
Have you decided which turtle its going to be?(*hoping Raph*).. Im interested to see how the shell will hold together without too much movement. I thought about this costume for halloween last yr
I can see this being the best TMNT costume ever
... I'd love just the head as a sculpture in my house, althought it would probably freak out the gfHave you decided which turtle its going to be?(*hoping Raph*).. Im interested to see how the shell will hold together without too much movement. I thought about this costume for halloween last yr
Westies14
Master Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Thanks very much! He's gonna be Leo, but he will have a red band if he wears one at all. They all had red bands in the comics I grew up reading (or at least on their covers)! There's a quick photoshop mockup of how I envisioned it in the first post of this thread.
Thanks very much! He's gonna be Leo, but he will have a red band if he wears one at all. They all had red bands in the comics I grew up reading (or at least on their covers)! There's a quick photoshop mockup of how I envisioned it in the first post of this thread.
jaybible
Well-Known Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Red band is close enough haha.. Im guessing they just colour coded them for kids. I never actually read the comics, i must start. I was only 8-9 when the cartoon came out.
I have this thread subbed so i'll be hoping for a speedy build
Red band is close enough haha.. Im guessing they just colour coded them for kids. I never actually read the comics, i must start. I was only 8-9 when the cartoon came out.
I have this thread subbed so i'll be hoping for a speedy build
Westies14
Master Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Yeah, that was a playmates thing. Eastman/Laird (turtle creators) were approached by a licensing guy who thought they were fantastically sellable with their look and with that name. He hooked them up with the Playmates contract for the toy line, and eventually the cartoon series. Playmates didn't think the different weapons (which were present in the original greyscale comics) did enough to differentiate the characters for kids. They assigned the four colored headbands and the letters on their belts.
These were the guys I grew up with:
Yeah, that was a playmates thing. Eastman/Laird (turtle creators) were approached by a licensing guy who thought they were fantastically sellable with their look and with that name. He hooked them up with the Playmates contract for the toy line, and eventually the cartoon series. Playmates didn't think the different weapons (which were present in the original greyscale comics) did enough to differentiate the characters for kids. They assigned the four colored headbands and the letters on their belts.
These were the guys I grew up with:
jaybible
Well-Known Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Its actually just coincidental that Eastman set up a deviantart account when u first posted up this, so i got to see all the original art work which i've never seen before (i know, shame on me!).. He's done quite a bit for the independant comicbook community!
Do you think you'll have this done by halloween?
Its actually just coincidental that Eastman set up a deviantart account when u first posted up this, so i got to see all the original art work which i've never seen before (i know, shame on me!).. He's done quite a bit for the independant comicbook community!
Do you think you'll have this done by halloween?
Westies14
Master Member
Re: "Real" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Updated 08-09-2011
Thanks for the heads up! I'll have to check out his Deviantart site.
I'd like to finish this in time for Halloween - that's the plan, anyway - but it wouldn't be the first Halloween deadline I've missed! I work 12-hour days Monday through Friday; I have a one-year-old son and a wife who I love to hang out with (but who doesn't enjoy sculpting); I take on a massive amount of freelance work in my off-hours; I'm wrapping up a new record with one of my bands. These little sculpting sessions sort of feel like my vacation time, but it's really stretching trying to get time in on it. Last night, for instance, I brought him out and worked on him from 1AM to 2AM, then went to bed to get up at 6:30AM. Will working like this be enough to complete him before October 31 rolls around? Who knows... I really hope so though. Halloween is kind of a big deal at my work and in my neighborhood. I've had two years in a row of "backup" costumes now...
- Doug
Thanks for the heads up! I'll have to check out his Deviantart site.
I'd like to finish this in time for Halloween - that's the plan, anyway - but it wouldn't be the first Halloween deadline I've missed! I work 12-hour days Monday through Friday; I have a one-year-old son and a wife who I love to hang out with (but who doesn't enjoy sculpting); I take on a massive amount of freelance work in my off-hours; I'm wrapping up a new record with one of my bands. These little sculpting sessions sort of feel like my vacation time, but it's really stretching trying to get time in on it. Last night, for instance, I brought him out and worked on him from 1AM to 2AM, then went to bed to get up at 6:30AM. Will working like this be enough to complete him before October 31 rolls around? Who knows... I really hope so though. Halloween is kind of a big deal at my work and in my neighborhood. I've had two years in a row of "backup" costumes now...
- Doug
